PAGE SIX Men's Glee Club Plans Annual Spring Concert The Penn State Men's Glee Club will present its annual awing concert in Schwab Audi torium, State College, on Sunday at 3:145 p. in. Under the leadership of Frank Outio„ associate professor of mu. sgC at the College, Sunday's con cert is the final one of a series give. in five cities of the State this week. The program will include, by the Glee Club: "Brothers, Sing On," by Grieg; "From Boston Harbor," a tradi tional sea chanty; "Laudamus Te," by Mueller; "Students' March Song," Romberg; "I Won't Kiss Katy," a Jugo-Slav folk song; "Waltzing Matilda," by Co wart and Paterson; "Aranmore," Morgan; "Every Day Is Ladies Day With Me," Herbert. "Lord Jeffrey Amherst," Hamil ton; "Johnny Schmoker," a Ger man folksong; "The Rangers' Song," Tierney; "Doctor Foster," Hughes; "Steal Away," Negro spiritual; "The Nation's Prayer," by Franck; and "March of the Musketeers," by Friml. Featured soloist of the Glee Club will be Thaddeus Komorow tki, baritone, who will sing "The Pilgrims' Song" and "At the Ball" by Tschaikowsky. and "Captain Stratton's Fancy" by Taylor. Two piano solos, "Berceuge it D Flat" and "Waltz i n C Sharp Minor" by Chopin, will be played by J. Edmond Kelly. Also appearing on the program with selected numbers will be the Varsity Quartet which in cludes James Beach, William Parsons, Robert Koser and Virgil Neilly. Ray Fortunato is accom panist and coach for the group. State College members of the Glee Club are Paul W. Grove, Jahn H. Storch, Virgil E. Neilly, David B. Doan, John B. Nesbitt, Charles W. Margolf and Frank M. Hess. Mr. Gullo, director, is a native a Forestville. N. Y. and was graduated from Fredonia State Normal School at Fredonia, N. Y. He received his bachelor of sci ..~ degree in music at New York University and taught at Elli ottville, N. Y. and Cattaraugus, N. Y., 'before joining the college faulty in 1939. Ag Student Council Plans 'Ag Hill Day' mite Hill Day" will be celebrated May 15. a ccording to plans formu lated Wednesday night by the Ag riculture Student Council. Starting in the afternoon with the Alt Hill - Home Economics cdanic in Hort Woods. the day will be climaxed by the annual Ag Frolic in the evening. Co-chairmen of the picnic are Dorothy Bartholomew and Leon ard Kimmel. William Hanlon is chairman of the Frolic. W AT POOR t Lost and Found Office Returns 1101 Items To Possessors A wide variety of 1,101 arti cles—ranging from two cameras to a marriage certificate—were returned to their rightful own ers by the lost and found depart ment maintained at the Student Union office in Old Main, ColL ege campus, during the last 13- month period. George L. Dono van, manager, has announced. Total estimated value of the articles exchanged has bee„ set at $7,961.50. In summarizing the list of val uables brought to the Student Unio„ desk by students, faculty employes, and visitors to the campus, the members of the lost and found department declared their belief that "people are hon est." Among the articles returned were 248 books, 95 fountain pens, 77 notebooks, 47 coats, 106 pairs of glasses. 70 slide rules, 108 pocketbooks, 17 watches, four hats, 51 scarfs, 92 pairs of gloves, 14 cigaret cases, two cameras, 14 meal tickets, 16 key cases, 32 bracelets, seve, rings, six cigar et lighters, one drawing set, two compacts, one tennis racquet, three cartons of cigarets, one pair of shoes, and one pair of trousers. Boro Completes Traffic Lights Two traffic lights at the corner of Allen street and College ave nue will be completed "sometime ~ext week," Borough Engineer Hugh B. Rice said today. Built at an estimated cost of $l5OO, the lights will be placed on the southeast corner of the inter section and on the flagstone in front of the Mall. Approval of the placement was granted by the State Highway department last summer after the Safety Council and student groups petitioned for the lights. Because of a shortage of materials, work was not started until March 22. Traffic at the intersection was not heavy enough to warrant a light, Rice said, but the student pedestrian traffic was unusually heavy during class hours. Succop Urges Socials, Dinners for Greek Week All fraternities and sororities vcsterdav were urged to exchange dinners and social functions Tues day. Wednesday and Thursday as Part of Greek week, said Joseph Succop. IFC publicity chairman. He suggested that two houses may exchange 15 members for the evening meal or some other occa sion. Proclaimed by Willard Ag new. IFC president, the week is highlighted by the PanHel-IFC Ball in Sec Hall next Friday. Greece has an incidence of tu berculosis surpassed only by that of Poland; among its population of seven million people there are approximately 250,000 active cases. AT PENN STATE MARTHA JANE SCHELL smokes CHESTERFIELDS Martha says: "I like Chesterfields better than any othe r brand of ciga rettes because they sum up my idea of smoking pleasure." A nation-wide survey shows Chesterfields are TOPS with College Students from coast to-coast. SIAlk.. LULL I.Ui , PEa\NSYLVA.NIet Ag Student Wins $l5O Scholarship Robert J. Loughry, seventh se mester student in Art Ed. won the William D. and Clara Calhoun Phillips scholarship, said Dr. H. K. Wilson. vice-dean of resident instruction. Loughry will receive $1.50 this semester as the first winne: of this new scholarship. The objec tive of the fund is to encourage and develop leadership in Chri tian living among the students of the School of Agriculture of the College. The winner entered college in 1942 and then interrupted his training to serve three years in the Marines. including time in Japan. He has been active in Penn State Christian Association, served on various of its committees, and is now chairman of the Commis sion on Personal Counseling and Marriage Relations. He is also vice-president of the Roger Wil liams Fellowship of the local Bap tist Church and a member of its student cabinet. Last year Loughry served as President of the Penn State chap ter of Future Farmers of Amer ica. In high school he was charter President and ( president for four years of the FFA chapter. At Present he is vice-president of Delta Theta Sigma, social frater nity, a member of the Campus 4-H club and Grange, and a mem -I.er of Alpha Tau Alpha. profes sional Ag Ed fraternity. As a freshman, he won a Sears- Roebuck scholarship. Penn State in Review First Five O N a cold blustery day, Febru ary 16, 1859, sixty-nine young men arrived at a half-finished building in the fields of Centre County, Pennsylvania—and the Pennsylvania State College was born. The original impulse had started six years earlier when the Pennsyl vania State Agricultural Society, an organization of well-to-do farmers, had voted to establish a Farmers' High SchooL A charter was grant ed in 1855, but crop failures and the financial panic of 1857 delayed fur ther action. Various influential citizens from different counties had striven to have the new school located on their land, but General James Irvin of Bellefonte won out with a gift of 200 acres, an option on 200 more, and a guarantee of $lO,OOO cash to be raised by Centre County citizens. The students who arrived that cold February day did not get a royal welcome. They had to lug their trunks up a plank into the half-finished building that later was called "Old Main." Three profes sors and their families were quar tered with the students in this structure, but there were no class . • 1:0* .• ys '64 IRVIN PUQU rooms, no laboratories, no bath rooms, no kitchen, no dining room, not even a president! The students Immediately turned two shanties of workingmen Into kitchen and din ing room; they got water from a nearby cistern; other things came in time. Eight months later the first pres ident arrived—Evan Pugh, Ph.D., 31 years old, 6 feet, 2 inches tall, fresh from three years' study in German universities and two years of research in agricultural chemis try in British laboratories. He had the technical knowledge and the administrative skill to be a great president, but few tools, little money, and only a handful of stu dents. He taught classes In agri- (First of a Series) By W. L. WERNER Cool Reception Kapell Scheduled For Artist Series William Kapell, young Ameri can pianist, will present the last Artist Series concert in Schwab Auditorium, April 21 and 22. Mr. Kapell's program will in clude Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, Bach-Liszt, Sonata in C major, K. 330, Mozart, Sonata in B minor, Opus 58, Chopin, Three Songs Without Words, Mendels sohn, and Sonata No. 7, Prokofieff. Born and educated in America, Mr. Kapell is a member of the young group of musicians whose careers were launched after the start of World War 11. Kapell's early education was obtained in New York's public schools and Columbia Grammar Sch6ol. He studied music at the Yorkville Settlement Music School, the Philadelphia Conservatory of Mu sic and the Juilliard Graduate School. The official start of Kapell's career came in 1942 when he play ed the Khatchaturian Piano Con cert at the Lewisohn Stadium in New York. Chi Omega The sorority celebrated it s Founcier's Day at a tea given at the Nittany Lion Inn, Sunday afternoon. Faculty members and representatives of other sororities were invited. The group was ad dressed by Dr. Rotert E. Denzler. Professor of claisical languages. Kappa Alpha Theta Sigma Alpha Epsilon was en tertained by Kappa Alpha Theta at A n April Fool's Party Thursday night. Years Are Hardest culture, chemistry and mineralogy; he dug into his own pocket for $5OO for laboratory equipment and for $lOOO toward a home on the cam pus. He organized courses, traveled and made speeches, implored legis latures for funds, and wrote a 35- page pamphlet to secure federal money, under the newly-passed Morrill Act, for his college. If the president worked hard, so did the students. A bell woke them at 6 a.m. for chapel and break fast. Mornings were devoted to study and recitation, but afternoons were divided between two hours of classwork and three hours of man ual labor. Students planted, plough ed and harvested, picked apples, tended the garden. They hauled coal from Bellefonte for their little stoves, swept halls, waited on tables, and worked in the laundry. In ad dition to this labor, they paid $lOO for the total expenses of the 7- months session. Their studies were chiefly agriculture, science and Eng lish composition. First 'Huirest' In 1881 President Pugh had the satisfaction of "harvesting" his first crop of students, eleven young men who had survived their accelerated 3-year course and earned the degree of Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture The next year Dr. Pugh succeeded in having the institution's name changed from the Farmers' High School to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, a name much clos er to his far-sighted plans and to his requests for federal land-grant funds. Meanwhile the Civil War had cast a shadow over the land; many of the students and faculty left to join the Army. When Pennsylvania was invaded in 1863 and Governor Cur tin called tor volunteers, the college k A.LIDA Y , B, Students Display Cattle In Ag Show Dairy cattle are still available for the twenty-third annual Dairy Exposition to be held Saturday, May 8, announced Lawrence Farb, show manager. Animals may be obtained by inquiring at Room 2V3, Dairy Building, or by calling State College 279 before April 1,0. All dairy breeds; Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Guernsey, and Jer sey cattle, are open to the con testants. Bich competitor has the privilege to draw for an animal of the individual breed which he prefers. As in the past, the cattle will not be judged on type but on the fitting and showing skill display ed by the students, since all ani mals are loaned from the Col lege's purebred herds. Many valuable prizes will be awarded to the winners, includ ing cash awards and products pre.. sented by leading manufacturers of dairy equipment. Alpha Sigma Phi Thames Evans, Clayton Rich mond, Ralph Bevan • and Charles Gudaitus were recently pledged by Alpha Sigma Phi. The fraternity recently elected the hollowing officers: Frederick Griffiths, president; Howard Gil liland, vice-president; Donald Mills, secretary; John H. Hopkins, corresponding secretary; and Jo sepih Predzinkowski, treasurer. had to close for several months. At the same time President Pugh suf fered a broken arm when his horse became frightened In a thunder storm and upset the buggy; because of improper treatment, the pres ident was ill for months. Overwork worries, the failure of his dreams beset him, and he died in April 1864, pleading in delirium for legis lative aid for his college. No soldier in the war's actual combat had striven more heroically. Because of the war there was no graduating class that year. Old Main was still unfinished for lack of. funds; some of the older private colleges in the state were still con testing in the legislature for a share in the federal land-grant appropria tions. Without financial security. without students, without a leader, the first five years of the college ended in gloom. No one could fore see that the college would thrive and grow to outlast two World Wars. (To be eontlased) It was 85 years ago on Agri/ 1, 1868—that the Penn sylvania Legislature designat ed Penn State the beneficiary of the Morrill Act, and there fore the Land Grant College of the State. W. L. Werner, pro fessor of American Literature, herein charts the highlights of those years in a condensation of Dr. Wayland F. Dunaway's illuminating book, "History of The Pennsylvania State Col lege," which was published a year ago. This is the AIM MI ft series of six artiass.
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